My dream job has been achieved, in sorts. I always wanted to be one of those little old ladies at the precinct when you vote working the booths. I‘ve nailed the little old lady part; I mean I am crushing that! But Oregon only votes by mail. This means no little old ladies jobs! Or…
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Hunting has a euphemism; it is called harvesting, as harvesting deer instead of hunting deer. I think the sport is still called hunting and those that participate are still called hunters not harvesters, but I am not sure. We have a neighbor who loves to hunt. He keeps fit all year so he can…
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As a survivor and breast cancer advocate I love to give some facts on the disease. Breast cancer, it happens! The number one cause of breast cancer is getting older Less than 10% of all breast cancer is genetic There is no cure for breast cancer There is no one cause for breast…
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I started my company; www.haralee.com sleepwear when the chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer threw me into menopause with drenching night sweats. I could not take ANYTHING nor could I find ANYTHING comfortable and super wicking for sleep, so I started my own company. Fast forward 14 years and our company still helps women…
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As a 16-year survivor and Breast Cancer Advocate, this is my month to blog and post about breast cancer so everyone who reads gets a dose of awareness! I am so lucky to have lived cancer free for 16 years, 14 years symptom free. It takes time for…
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October is breast cancer awareness month. To start my weekly blogs on Breast Cancer awareness I am starting with a rant! Have you seen the commercials about drugs for MBC? Giving Metastatic Breast Cancer and anachronism does not make it friendlier, less deadly and certainly not to be confused with MSNBC!!! Metastatic Breast…
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Recently I have been thinking about choices I made through the years that literally decades later have come home to roost. That is chicken talk for choices made earlier; even decades earlier that have an outcome now. 30 years ago my husband and I had our home built. We never at the time…
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Last month was the one-year anniversary of my cousin Sarita’s death. Sarita died at age 57. She fell and broke her neck. Her sudden death has given me pause and here are a few lessons I learned from her passing: If you drop something, get up and retrieve it. DO NOT bend over or…
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This spring my Mother died at age 96. For the last 6 years she traveled down the rabbit hole of dementia. For the first 4 years of her slide into dementia she was sometimes right there, and then she diminished into a shell of her former self for the last 2 years. My sister…
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Recently I was on a nonstop cross-country flight. Everywhere this summer seemed to be hot, really hot. Airports can be warm, cold or hot. The same holds true for planes. I usually travel with a scarf or a pashmina but for this leg of my trip I didn’t have it! Why do you fly with…
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